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NATO
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Domino Theory
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Suez Crisis
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Space Race
The two cold war rivals are having a competition to see who has better space flight power. The US and the USSR are sending rockets and satellites to see who can get to the moon first. The Race hits a high point whenever the US is the first to land humans on the moon with the Apollo 11. -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union and the United starts were in an arms race to see who had the better flight equipment. The soviet Union launched Sputnik and the United States launched Apollo 11. Whenever the race hit a high point was whenever Apollo 11 had landed on the moon with humans for the first time. -
U-2 Spy Incident
The USSR had shot down and Spy plane from the US and captured the pilot. The pilot was sentenced to prison for 10 years, for espionage. The CIA finally told the USSR that they have been flying spy planes over them for several years now. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Berlin Wall
The wall was mainly built to keep the fascists from entering East Germany and tearing apart the social states. One of its primary objective was to stem mass defections from the east to the west side. The night of November 9, 1989 many ecstatic crowds brought picks and things to chip away at the wall. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union had Installed nuclear missiles, which had caused a standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States. John Kennedy had addressed on Television what the army was gonna do. Which was put up a blockade that would hopefully show the Soviet Union that they were prepared to fight. This was the closest the two sides had got to being in a nuclear war. -
Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
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Perestroika and Glasnost
